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- getting to read a book of the Amber Chronicles (while waiting 40 mins for a bus)

- leaving work for two hours in the middle of the day (to fall asleep in a lecture)

- having Hell for dinner (since none of us could be bothered cooking)

- a clean kitchen (because we finally did the dishes)

- snuggling up in a warm blanket (while talking to my mother)

- clean sheets on my bed (because I finally changed them at the weekend)

Seems like lots of people I know aren't feeling well (and when I say this, I mean neither of my flatmates and F and a few other people). I don't think I'm coming down with a cold, but I have had a fairly persistent headache on and off for the last few days. I hope this isn't a sign.

Didn't manage to get to the gym today. I set my alarm twelve hours out, woke up ten minutes late, and was too confuzzled to actually get out of the door in time to catch my bus. Will get there tomorrow though, since I am about ten mintues off falling into bed.

Gmail is currently annoying me, as are a few of the other tabs I have open in firefox. When I click on a link, the bar up the top which has all the useful information and buttons (such as website, forward, back, refresh etc) compresses slightly and then moves down again. And of course my eyes follow this, but it also feels like things get smaller on the screen and it's really frustrating and disconcerting.

Have my results back for the first set of optional homework questions now. Apparently only nine people of twenty plus handed some in. I managed to get them all done and got 84%, which is a nice starting point. They were fairly easy questions in my opionion, so I will be more interested in seeing how I do in the next set, which involve answering things using the correct rule from Rules of Professional Conduct for Barristers and Solicitors.

Got back to the gym this morning, which was good. It was very strange getting up at six and having it be light, let walking down to the bus stop at twenty past six in daylight. I'm sure I'll get used to it. Although by the time I'm used to it, it'll probably be dark at that time of the morning again.

Watched Howl's Moving Castle and the first three episodes of Neverwhere last night. They were both very good. I'd seen the former before, but not the latter. I very much like the Marquis. I'd like to reread Howl's Moving Castle again and compare differences again (I did this last time I watched it), but my copy of the book is somewhere in Argentina with an ex-workmate from the hotel. She's promised to mail it back to me and even asked for my address to do so, but I'll expect it when it arrives. She mentioned it to me via MSN the other day - I hadn't completely forgotten about it, but I had more or less given up on getting it back. I won't hurry about replacing it.

EDIT: All right, so it's Firefox that's annoying me rather than gmail, since the contracting thing up the top seems to be happening whenever I wait for a page to load and sometimes when I switch between pages. I blame my computer. Stupid Jack. I look forward to his eventual complete organ transplant.

I am starting to get used to getting up around six in order to catch the 6.36am Wilton to go to the gym before work. Mum reckons that it takes about three weeks for a habit to form, so I'm a third of the way there. After another two, it might become easier. Either that, or I will have also formed a habit of going to bed an hour or more earlier than I used to, which will also make a difference. That one will be a lot harder, though.

However, I find it means that I get tired much more quickly in the evenings and also that it feels like I have less time. Tonight, while not being a particularly good example: I got home after seven (had a meeting until about 6.30pm), came online, checked emails and livejournal, put in the fix that Alessan showed me for the win32 error, which actually worked, did dishes, spent some time mucking around with Ceaser3 and Castle of the Winds (did one and a half mine levels) before deciding that it was about time to go to bed. ie, now.

The fix working means that I didn't get a couple of things done that I quite wanted to: continue checking quoth_the_ravyn's latest chapter, which I meant to and didn't, and finish updating the catalogue for the three piles of books on my desk. People who are British citizens and interested in the library might be interested in following this link: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/library/.

First thing in the morning, something that would otherwise take about ten minutes frequently takes about twenty. My thought processes work rather slowly and fixedly. The other morning on the bus a girl got on, wearing a jacket the exact same shade of maroon as my high school blazers were. I wondered vaguely as she stepped up to the bus driver and had her ticket clicked why a Hamilton Girl's High School hostel girl was getting on the bus at this time of the morning. Then she turned to face me as she went to find a seat and I realised that the jacket, while the right colour, was not actually a HGHS blazer, furthermore, I was in Wellington and a HGHS hostel girl would not be here and would not be wearing, what is, after all, a rather ugly blazer. The entire thinking process after she sat down took about ten minutes, until we overlooked the bay and I was distracted onto another topic.

Am going to curtail plans for Saturday, I think. I had been thinking of going to Te Papa in between practice and the party I'm not invited to, but instead will stay home, do stuff and relax. Might go to Te Papa on Sunday, after the Around the Bays.

And happy birthday to atomic_susan!

First day back at work since 19 January 2007. I hadn't forgotten a surprising amount, but it feels very strange to be kneeling on my chair all day and be back at work. I do feel well rested - the three days at Matarangi, when I just did nothing really made a difference, as did yesterday, whereupon I did nothing until I left to go to Ultimate. It was Happy vs. Dirty. We lost, btw.

I am really enjoying the warmth and sunshine of summer. I've been sleeping with my windows open for the last week I've been here (except Thursday because it was too cold). I'm too awake to sleep, although finishing David Weber's latest (which C. purchased) Off Armageddon Reef might solve that problem. Also too hot at the moment, but my room is slowly cooling down and I'll open my curtains when I turn my light out and the computer off.

Sometimes in my flat, we just lose at life. We went grocery shopping this evening but decided that instead of doing the pile of rinsed dishes on the bench afterwards, we would watch Eureka 1.8, which was good and sad and funny at the same time.

I caught the 6.35 Wilton into town this morning as a kinda test run to see what's the earliest I can get to the gym (there being no earlier bus) and what sort of time I'll need to allow in the future to shower, dress, get to work and eat breakfast. Despite my dislike for it, I may end up having to eat breakfast before I leave, since I'm really not going to have that much time when I start starting at 8.00am.

Still have that pile of books on my floor to amend in my catalogue and still need to vaccum. Hopefully, I'll get to the latter tomorrow. The former can wait until. Um. Friday? Sunday? Saturday is completely booked.

Argh! I start study again in a couple of weeks! Why am I doing this?